DCTS Action Memo 2021-09

STATE OF WISCONSIN Department of Health Services Division of Care and Treatment Services

1 West Wilson Street PO Box 7851

Madison WI 53707-7851

Telephone: 608-266-2717

Fax: 608-266-2579 TTY: 711 or 800-947-3529

www.dhs.wisconsin.gov

Date: August 23, 2021 DCTS Action Memo 2021-09

To: Subscribers of the DCTS Action Memo Email Distribution List

From: Rose Kleman, Administrator

Applications for Community Mental Health Services Block Grant Supplemental Awards - Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act

Summary This memo outlines the process and requirements to request additional Community Mental Health Services

Block Grant (CMHSBG) (CFDA #93.958) funding from the Department of Health Services (DHS),

Division of Care and Treatment Services (DCTS), for the period of March 15, 2021, through March 14,

2022, and March 15, 2022, through March 14, 2023. These funds are to be used to provide community

mental health services and address unmet needs or gaps in services arising from the COVID-19

pandemic. The deadline to request these funds is September 10, 2021.

Background DHS received a supplemental amount of $14,259,851 in CMHSBG funding through the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 (CRRSAA), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Of that total, $8,660,388 will be awarded to counties and $550,000 will be awarded to tribal nations through two separate supplemental awards to fund community-based mental health programs and services. Two annual awards of CMHSBG supplemental funds will be offered to counties and tribes for the purpose of supporting unmet mental health needs in their communities. These awards can be utilized to fund additional treatment and recovery services. A total of $4,330,194 will be provided to county agencies and $275,000 will be provided to tribal nations for activities covering the period March 15, 2021, through March 15, 2022. Additional funding with the same amounts will be available for activities covering the period March 15, 2022, through March 14, 2023.

Eligibility for funding All counties and/or county consortia and federally recognized tribal nations are eligible to receive

funding in the amount detailed in Table 1. County awards are commensurate to the percentage of the

overall program funds received by the county via the CMHSBG Community Aids Award with a base

funding of $25,000 per applicant per year. Tribal nations will receive $25,000 per year.

Application process To apply for funding an authorized county or tribal nation representative must email LeeAnn Mueller no

later than September 10, 2021. Please use “Application for CMHSBG CRRSAA Funding” for the

subject line of this email.

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This email must include the following:

Confirmation of acceptance of the terms of the funding outlined in this memo.

Confirmation that the county/tribal nation is accepting funding for both grant years, March 15, 2021,

through March 14, 2022, and March 15, 2022, through March 14, 2023. If only one year of funding

is accepted, please note which year is accepted.

Confirmation that the county/tribal nation accepts the full amount of the award the county/tribal

nation is eligible to receive as detailed in Table 1. Agencies may accept a lower amount if it is

anticipated that the full award not will not be utilized.

The name, title, and contact information of the person authorized to commit the county/tribal nation

to the terms of the contract.

A completed DCTS Annual Grant/Contract Application: Condensed, F-21276C, and a completed

DCTS Summary Line Item Budget: Condensed, F-01601C.

o Complete all fields of the forms.

o Use for “CMHSBG Supplemental Award CRRSAA” as the grant/contract title.

o The application and budget should be specific to the first year of funding (March 15, 2021,

through March 14, 2022) and the document should reflect the plan and award for the first year

grant amount detailed in Table 1. An additional plan for second year spending and amount spent

in year one will be requested at a later date.

o The DCTS Annual Grant/Contract Application: Condensed, F-21276C, must be received in

Word document format.

o The DCTS Summary Line Item Budget: Condensed, F-01601C, must be received in Excel

document format.

Applicants should detail their needs, barriers, and gaps related to behavioral health resulting from the

COVID-19 pandemic. Applicants should also detail the populations they intend to serve with the

funding. Please include specific plans and uses of the funding.

Applications received after September 10, 2021, may not be funded.

A standalone contract, with the period of March 15, 2021, through March 14, 2022, will be delivered to

each successful applicant for signature. This contract will utilize a unique CARS profile number. CARS

profile numbers for these awards will be communicated through the contracting process. A separate

standalone contract will be delivered at a later date for the March 15, 2022, through March 14, 2023,

funding.

NOTE: There are two supplemental funding opportunities under CRRSSA. This opportunity and an

opportunity related to the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant. County and tribal

nations must submit separate emails for each opportunity, including separate completed forms (F-

21276C and F-01601C) for each opportunity. Only one application per funding source will be accepted

from each county/tribal nation.

Reporting requirements Recipients of this funding will be required to submit an online report at the conclusion of the contract

period. The report will require the recipient to provide information on expenditures, including the use of

the funding by the program area categories allowable in this memo. Recipients will also be required to

provide a narrative detailing what was achieved with the funds and how many people were served using

https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/forms/f21276c.docx

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the funds. In addition to reporting on the outcomes of the March 15, 2021, through March 14, 2022,

funding in this report, recipients will also be required to submit a plan for the March 15, 2022, through

March 14, 2023, CMHSBG CRRSAA Supplemental Awards funding. Additional information regarding

the process for completing this report will be provided at a later date.

CMHSBG CRRSAA expenditure requirements Federal and state requirements associated with the expenditure of the community aids formula allocation

are described in detail on pages 8-13 of this memo.

Some of these requirements include:

Funds must be used for activities associated with community mental health services.

Funds must be used for services to adults with serious mental illness or children with serious

emotional disturbance.

DCTS has identified nine program areas to which counties can apply these funds, including Community

Support Programs, supported housing, jail diversion, crisis intervention, family and consumer peer

support and self-help, services for children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance,

programs for people with co-occurring mental illness and substance use problems, community mental

health data set development, and Comprehensive Community Services.

Priority for serving individuals who are homeless

In 2005, DCTS added a priority to improve efforts to serve homeless people with a serious mental

illness through either immediate action or priority placement on a wait list. Counties are requested to

prioritize the reporting of people who are homeless and have a serious mental illness through the

Program Participation System. The primary objective of prioritizing people with a serious mental

illness who are homeless is to provide this population with better access to all mainstream mental health

services. CMHSBG funds can be dedicated to any of the priority program areas to provide mainstream

mental health services to people with a serious mental illness who are homeless. Program Participation

System data will be used by DCTS to report on services provided to people who are homeless. All

Program Participation System data must be completed for all consumers with a serious mental illness

who are homeless regardless of whether the CMHSBG is used to fund their services.

Data describing homeless individuals should be recorded in Program Participation System fields as

follows:

Code 80 indicating an individual is homeless should be recorded as a client characteristic.

Code 1 for individuals who meet the Blue Ribbon Commission criteria for inclusion in the

Consumer Status Data Set, indicating the individual lives on the street or in a shelter.

Care and treatment of individuals who have interaction with the criminal justice system

In 2020, SAMHSA provided states with clarifying guidance on the use of CMHSBG funds for the care

and treatment of individuals who have interaction with the criminal justice system. Given this guidance,

counties may utilize the CMHSBG Community Aids Allocation for the provision of community-based

services for people with serious mental illness who have interaction with the criminal justice system.

These services must be rendered by community-based providers going into jails and prisons to provide

the necessary psychiatric services. This may entail the delivery of comprehensive, individualized

treatment and recovery services to those serving sentences as well as those receiving competency




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restoration services, both for those incarcerated and those living in the community.

Subrecipient monitoring requirement Counties that use their allocation to fund subrecipient agencies for services must implement fiscal

monitoring and oversight to ensure the subrecipient is in compliance with Public Law 102-321, Section

1911(b) and 1912(b), as outlined on pages 8-13 of this memo.

CENTRAL OFFICE CONTACT Bureau of Prevention Treatment and Recovery

Division of Care and Treatment Services

Department of Health Services

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Madison, WI 53703

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Table 1: CMHSBG CRRSAA Awards

County Agencies Award Amount

3/15/21-3/14/22

Award Amount

3/15/22-3/14/23

ADAMS COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY PROGRAMS $25,000 $25,000

ASHLAND COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT $25,000 $25,000

BARRON COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT $31,934 $31,934

BAYFIELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY

PROGRAMS $25,000 $25,000

BROWN COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $156,505 $156,505

BUFFALO COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES $25,000 $25,000

BURNETT COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES $25,000 $25,000

CALUMET COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $25,000 $25,000

CHIPPEWA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $43,029 $43,029

CLARK COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES $25,514 $25,514

COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT $26,765 $26,765

CRAWFORD COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT $25,000 $25,000

DANE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $254,791 $254,791

DODGE COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES AND HEALTH

DEPARTMENT $49,347 $49,347

DOOR COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY PROGRAMS $25,000 $25,000

DOUGLAS COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES $40,697 $40,697

DUNN COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $29,846 $29,846

EAU CLAIRE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $82,071 $82,071

FLORENCE COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT $25,000 $25,000

FOND DU LAC DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY PROGRAMS $59,373 $59,373

FOREST, ONEIDA, VILAS, HUMAN SERVICES CENTER $39,174 $39,174

GRANT-IOWA UNIFIED BOARD $47,871 $47,871

GREEN COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES $25,000 $25,000

GREEN LAKE COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

DEPARTMENT $25,000 $25,000

IRON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $25,000 $25,000

JACKSON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES $25,000 $25,000

JEFFERSON COUNTY HUMAN SERVICE DEPARTMENT $41,582 $41,582

JUNEAU COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $25,000 $25,000

KENOSHA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $115,880 $115,880

KEWAUNEE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $25,000 $25,000

LA CROSSE COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT $90,362 $90,362

LAFAYETTE COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES $25,000 $25,000

MANITOWOC COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT $55,904 $55,904

MARINETTE COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

DEPARTMENT $29,811 $29,811




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MARQUETTE COUNTY UNIFIED SERVICES BOARD $25,000 $25,000

MENOMINEE COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

DEPARTMENT $25,000 $25,000

MILWAUKEE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $1,091,611 $1,091,611

MONROE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $29,135 $29,135

NORTH CENTRAL COMM SERVICES PROGRAM

(LANGLADE/LINCOLN/MARATHON) $114,414 $114,414

OCONTO COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $25,000 $25,000

OUTAGAMIE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $102,055 $102,055

OZAUKEE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY

PROGRAMS $40,158 $40,158

PEPIN COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $25,000 $25,000

PIERCE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $25,000 $25,000

POLK COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT $27,316 $27,316

PORTAGE COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

DEPARTMENT $40,567 $40,567

PRICE COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT $25,000 $25,000

RACINE COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT $159,924 $159,924

RICHLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS $25,000 $25,000

ROCK COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT $116,674 $116,674

RUSK COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

DEPARTMENT $25,000 $25,000

SAUK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $27,916 $27,916

SAWYER COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES $25,000 $25,000

SHAWANO DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY PROGRAMS $26,425 $26,425

SHEBOYGAN COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICE

DEPARTMENT $81,478 $81,478

ST CROIX COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

DEPARTMENT $27,897 $27,897

TAYLOR COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT $25,000 $25,000

TREMPEALEAU COUNTY UNIFIED BOARD $25,096 $25,096

VERNON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $25,000 $25,000

WALWORTH COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES $35,020 $35,020

WASHBURN COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT $25,000 $25,000

WASHINGTON COUNTY - COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY

SERVICES AGENCY $59,632 $59,632

WAUKESHA COUNTY COMM HUMAN SERVICES DEPT $174,217 $174,217

WAUPACA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $33,080 $33,080

WAUSHARA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY

PROGRAMS $25,000 $25,000

WINNEBAGO COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY

PROGRAMS $109,749 $109,749

WOOD COUNTY UNIFIED SERVICES $62,374 $62,374




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Tribal Nations

Award

Amount

3/15/21-

3/14/22

Award

Amount

3/15/22-

3/14/23

BAD RIVER BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA INDIANS $25,000 $25,000

FOREST COUNTY POTAWATOMI COMMUNITY $25,000 $25,000

HO-CHUNK NATION $25,000 $25,000

LAC COURTE OREILLES BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA

INDIANS $25,000 $25,000

LAC DU FLAMBEAU BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA INDIANS $25,000 $25,000

MENOMINEE INDIAN TRIBE OF WISCONSIN $25,000 $25,000

ONEIDA NATION OF WISCONSIN $25,000 $25,000

RED CLIFF BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA INDIANS $25,000 $25,000

SOKAOGON CHIPPEWA COMMUNITY $25,000 $25,000

ST. CROIX CHIPPEWA COMMUNITY $25,000 $25,000

STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE BAND OF MOHICAN INDIANS $25,000 $25,000




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CMHSBG CRRSAA Requirements

A. Client eligibility for services

With respect to Public Law 102-321, Section 1911(b) and 1912(b), the Center for Mental Health

Services established final definitions for the target populations that would be serviced by funds

from the CMHSBG. These definitions apply directly to those county programs using these funds.

Funds may be used only to provide services to mental health consumers who meet the following

definitions. DHS is responsible to assure the Center for Mental Health Services that these funds are

appropriately used.

Definitions of children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance

Pursuant to Section 1911(c) of the Public Health Service Act "children with a serious emotional

disturbance" are (1) from birth up to age 18 and (2) who currently have, or at any time during the

last year, had a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder of sufficient duration to meet

diagnostic criteria specified within DSM-III-R. Federal Register Volume 58 No. 96 published May

20, 1993, pages 29,422 through 29,425.

Definition of adults with a serious mental illness

Pursuant to Section 1912(c) of the Public Health Service Act, as amended by Public Law 102-321,

"adults with a serious mental illness" are people : (1) age 18 and over; (2) who currently have, or at

any time during the past year, had a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder of

sufficient duration to meet diagnostic criteria specified within DSM-IV or their ICD-9-CM

equivalent (and subsequent revisions) with the exception of DSM-IV "V" codes, substance use

disorders, and developmental disorders, which are excluded, unless they co-occur with another

diagnosable serious mental illness; and (3) that has resulted in functional impairment, which

substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities. Federal Register Volume 58

No. 96 published May 20, 1993, pages 29422 through 29425.

B. Allowable services

The purpose of these funds is to expand the county-operated or contracted system of community-

based services for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional

disturbance. These funds must be used to initiate new programs, or significantly strengthen existing

programs for these population categories, refer to PL 102-321, Section 1916(a).

Program priority areas

The 2021 Wisconsin State Mental Health Plan identifies and describes a number of programs that

help meet the needs of both adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional

disturbance. The community aids formula allocation funds are to be used to expand a number of

these services; specifically, the funds allocated to county programs may be used for the following

program priority areas:

1. Certified Community Support Programs development and service delivery

2. Supported housing program development and service delivery

3. Initiatives to divert people from jails to mental health services

4. Development and expansion of mobile crisis intervention programs

5. Consumer peer support and self-help activities

6. Coordinated, comprehensive services for children with serious emotional disturbance

7. Development of strategies and services for people with co-occurring mental health and substance



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use disorders

8. Mental health outcome data system improvement

9. Certified Comprehensive Community Services program development and service delivery

The following section defines allowable uses of the funds for each of the nine priority areas and

presents information on how funds may be used. Use of the funds in these priority areas should be

reported through Program Participation System as a service. Each of the descriptions of the

program priority areas below is followed by its associated Standard Program Category code, which

counties should use when recording data in Program Participation System.

1. Certified Community Service Programs development and service delivery

Funds may be used only by certified Community Support Programs for the following activities:

Hire additional staff to serve people on waiting lists.

Address clients’ vocational needs by hiring vocational counselors.

Address clients’ substance use issues by hiring additional staff with that expertise.

Provide parenting skills training and other specialized services to clients who are parents.

Assist eligible adolescents who are in transition from children’s services to adult services.

Send staff to training or hire trainers to come in and work with staff.

Use money for client emergencies, such as medications, vocational incentive money, etc.

Purchase necessary equipment to enhance programming.

Services delivered with these funds should be reported using the following Standard Program

Category code in Program Participation System:

509 Community support

2. Supported housing program development and service delivery

Funds are to be used to increase the applicant’s resources and knowledge to help people with a

serious mental illness choose, obtain, and keep normal housing. Note: These funds may be used

to assist mental health consumers who are homeless and in need of services in the county. The

funds may also be used to increase the applicant’s capacity to identify the housing needs of

clients; develop overall housing plans; and educate landlords, public housing authorities, housing

planners, and developers about the housing needs of clients. The housing on which the efforts are

targeted needs to be based on the choice of consumers, have a regular landlord/tenant lease, and

be integrated with housing/apartments for people without disabilities. Clients must also have the

opportunity to choose their roommates/housemates. These funds may not be used for

community-based residential services or purchase of land or buildings or payment of a mortgage.

Funds may be used to:

Conduct or hire consultants to conduct consumer housing preference studies.

Hire a housing coordinator to address clients’ housing needs with other housing providers,

including landlords.

Start-up funds to pay for security deposits to assist people moving into their housing from

institutions, group homes, etc.

Subsidize the client’s rent while they are on the Section B waiting list.

Send staff to training regarding housing issues or hire trainers to teach staff to understand

housing and support service issues.

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housing of their choice.

Services delivered with these funds could be reported using the following Standard Program

Category code in Program Participation System:

106 Housing/energy assistance

3. Initiatives to divert people from jails to mental health services

Expand or develop capacity at mental health agencies to identify, build relationships with,

and divert and support people with serious mental illness or children and adolescents with

severe emotional disturbance from jails, when appropriate. Funds may be used to:

Hire jail liaison staff.

Purchase training and consultation to develop jail linkages.


No standard program categories are available to record for this program priority area.

4. Development and expansion of mobile crisis intervention programs

Develop or expand the ability of mental health staff to provide mobile crisis intervention and

resolution services 24 hours a day/seven days a week. Innovative efforts to develop alternatives

to hospitalization are also eligible for these funds. Funds may be used to:

Hire staff to provide mobile crisis intervention and resolution services.

Purchase training or send staff to training regarding crisis intervention and resolution

techniques.


Develop community-based crisis resolution programs like community crisis beds.

Pay for respite services.

Fund a consumer-operated support telephone line.

Fund consumer-operated crisis alternative.

Services delivered with these funds should be reported using the following Standard Program

Category codes in Program Participation System:

501.00 Initial crisis intervention - hours

501.10 Initial crisis intervention - days

501.20 Crisis follow up – hours

5. Consumer peer support and self-help activities

Organizations that focus on providing self-help, peer-to-peer support, or peer support to families

of adults with serious mental illness or children/adolescents with severe emotional disturbance

and clients, consumers, and ex-patients. Funds may be used to:

Pay rent and pay operating expenses for an office and a meeting place.

Pay expenses related to publishing a newsletter.

Hire a staff person, preferably a consumer or family member, to set up meetings and perform

administrative duties.

Develop peer support and self-help programs, including clubhouses, drop-in centers,

supported telephone lines, crisis alternatives, housing referral and support, employment

referral, etc.

Reimburse members’ mileage to help them attend meetings, pay for babysitters, etc.




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Pay expenses to assist members to attend meetings and conferences, including conferences

out of state.

Hire consumers or family members to provide assistance to other clients and family members

in dealing with the mental health system during a crisis, when there is a complaint, etc.


Category codes in Program Participation System as appropriate:

507.90 Peer support/recovery coach

6. Coordinated, comprehensive services for children with serious emotional disturbance

Develop and/or expand the applicant’s capacity to provide comprehensive and coordinated

services for children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance. Funds may be used to:

Hire a service coordinator with the qualifications specified under Wis. Stat. § 46.56, an

individual who is qualified by specialized training and clinical experience with children

with serious emotional disturbance and their families.

Create a pool of funds for providing flexible services to maintain children and youth in their

homes or the community.

Hire a children’s specialist (master’s degree with 3,000 hours) for the Wis. Stat. ch. 51

system who can team with a second worker to provide in-home therapy services.

Identify gaps in the service array and fund missing services.

Hire a child mental health therapist to assist Community Support Programs-eligible

adolescents in transition from children’s services to adult services


Category codes in Program Participation System as appropriate:

103 Respite care

604 Case management

501.00 Initial crisis intervention - hours

501.10 Initial crisis intervention - days

501.20 Crisis follow up - hours

507 Counseling/therapeutic resources

704 Day treatment-medical

510.10 Comprehensive Community Services - hours

7. Development of strategies and services for people with co-occurring mental

health/substance use disorders

The purpose of this priority area is to develop innovative strategies and approaches for

providing integrated community services for people with serious and persistent mental illness

who have substance use problems. The proposed system for these individuals must

incorporate and integrate mental health and substance use treatment. Funds may be used to:

Add or provide specialized training/certification to staff of the applicant’s Community Support

Program.

Develop a case management program.

Develop a new community treatment and support program for people with dual diagnosis.


Category codes in the Program Participation System:

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507 Counseling/therapeutic resources

509 Community Support Program


604 Case management

8. Mental health outcome data system improvement

The purpose of this program initiative is to promote the development of client, program, and

outcome mental health data to enhance knowledge about those being served, and to provide for

the future planning of services and resources for those with a serious mental illness. Funds may

be used to:

Attend regional or statewide training on goals of mental health data-set development.

Develop innovative, county-based pilot projects for mental health data collection.

Purchase capital equipment, specifically computer equipment and software, in order to

utilize a state-developed mental health data set.

Hire or contract for computer personnel in order to integrate a state-developed data set with a

local system and transfer data gained to state-based system.

No standard program categories are necessary to record for this program priority area.

9. Certified Comprehensive Community Services development and service delivery

Funds may be used only by certified Comprehensive Community Services counties for the

following activities:

Hire additional staff to serve people on waiting lists.

Address clients’ vocational needs by hiring vocational counselors.

Address clients’ substance abuse issues by hiring additional staff with that expertise.

Provide parenting skills training and other specialized services to Comprehensive

Community Services clients who are parents.

Assist eligible adolescents who are in transition from children’s services to adult services.

Send staff to training or hire trainers to come in and work with staff.

Use money for client emergencies, such as medications, vocational incentive money, etc.


Services delivered with these funds should be reported using the following Standard

Program Category code in Program Participation System:


C. Restrictions on funds

The Allowable Costs Manual states that capital equipment requests that exceed $5,000 require a

waiver from DCTS. All items that exceed $5,000 should be justified in the appropriate section of the

online reporting form. This section requires that a request for capital equipment be tied to the goals

of the proposal.

Agencies may not expend the CMHSBG to:

Provide inpatient services or services in a community-based residential facility.

Make cash payments to intended recipients of health services.

Purchase or improve land; purchase, construct, or permanently improve a building or other




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facility; pay down payments or mortgage for property; or purchase major medical equipment.

Satisfy any requirement for the expenditure of nonfederal funds as a condition for the receipt of

federal funds, that is, medical assistance match for Community Support Programs,

Comprehensive Community Services, or case management services.

Provide financial assistance to any entity other than a public or nonprofit private entity.

Supplant existing funding for services for adults with serious mental illness or children with

serious emotional disturbance.

Purchase, prescribe, or provide marijuana or treatment using marijuana.

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